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National Geographic : 1919 Jan
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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE to provide a series of diagonal ave nues that will permit every quarter of the city to reach every other quar ter without going around two sides of a square. The plan can best be visualized by reference to the map cr fonpage40. S In the execution of the plan the S.a widening of Twelfth Street was first " undertaken. This is one of the prin - 5 cipal east and west thoroughfares. 8 It was a narrow, cluttered street, but one of the main arteries through .: which the West Side reached the Lake Front. At an expenditure of r about five million dollars, buildings 3fo were razed or moved back and a splendid thoroughfare developed. The Michigan Avenue improve .a ment came next. The beautiful • highway, with its connecting arteries, ~ unites the North Shore with the . ~ _South Side. For years this thor oughfare has been the pride of Chi cago and the admiration of all who I visit the city. As a part of the Lake Sd Shore drive that links the woods of f southern Wisconsin with the plains - of northern Indiana, it is a magnifi S~ cent street, yet it has one impossible ho~6 section. S THE BUSIEST BRIDGE IN THE WORLD That section is at the crossing of the Chicago River. The Indians in SDo the olden days called this immediate ~. vicinity by a name that meant "the place of the wild onion," and if it 2' smelled as bad then as it does now, r the name was not a misnomer. Yet . t here converges what is believed to be the densest traffic that crosses any bridge in the world. 3 A break in the Avenue at Ran 0 dolph Street makes a jog leading to . the Rush Street bridge, which is " about as homely a structure as the , eye could see, being an old-fashioned, o single - span drawbridge. Other o streets besides Michigan Avenue 1 lead to it from both sides of the river; and morning, noon, and night 2° it is the neck of a traffic bottle, al ways blocking vehicular movement both by reason of its smallness and because the draw frequently is open
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